Thread by @ElkeBabiuk

How does a bill passed in 2019 cause crime to increase between 2015 & 2019?

Note how crime rates are skewed by 2 Conservative prairie Provs & Territories?

MPs should tell Conservative Premiers to clean up their own back yards instead of ignorantly blaming PM Trudeau!
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https://twitter.com/AlexRuff17/status/1620734081318404096

Canada’s Crime Severity Index was stable in the 2nd yr of the pandemic at 73.9 in 2020 & 73.7 in 2021! "This follows a 7% drop in the CSI in 2020....."
www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/85-002-…
Violent Crime "rose in 2021, largely due to more police-reported level 1 sexual assaults" #cdnpoli

The dishonesty & fear-mongering of @PierrePoilievre & other Conservatives needs to stop & #cdnmedia need to stop platforming their histrionics. It's a blatant attempt to grab power at the expense of truth & is why the polls are changing, in addition to the LIBs' lousy comms team.

The whole "Catch and Release" bail histrionics by Conservatives is also BS. My thread on it:

https://twitter.com/ElkeBabiuk/status/1619788310960021506

Incidentally, David Lametti, Canada's AG has been networking with his counterparts since Oct about reforming bail. Stop the histrionics already. LIBs are on it.

"I'm disappointed that the Official Opposition is using tragedies to try to score political points...."

Police failed to act on an arrest warrant for the man who killed the OPP officer after he violated bail conditions
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cbc.ca/1.6734446

There are structural issues in our justice system that need to be fixed.

Katharina Maier, Prof of criminal justice at the University of Winnipeg:

"It also demands we look beyond the criminal justice system, at the range of factors that research shows can drive violent crime."

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